TO LOSE SIGHT OF

  

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TO LOSE SIGHT OF

Definition: TO LOSE SIGHT OF

TO LOSE SIGHT OF

1. (a) To cease to see; as, to lose sight of the land. (b) To overlook; to forget; to fail to perceive; as, he lost sight of the issue.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Modern Usage: TO LOSE SIGHT OF

DomainUsage

Clever

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has courage to lose sight of the shore. (references; author: unknown)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: TO LOSE SIGHT OF

AuthorQuotation

George Eliot

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translation: TO LOSE SIGHT OF

Language Translations for "TO LOSE SIGHT OF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

aus dem Gesicht verlieren. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szem elől veszít vkit (to lose sight of sy), szem elől téveszt vkit (to lose sight of sy). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

見失う (to miss). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

みうしなう (to miss). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay oselay ightsay ofay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO LOSE SIGHT OF

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-f-g-h-i-l-o-o-o-s-s-t-t"

-2 letters: ethologists, fetologists, osteologist.

-3 letters: ethologist, fetologist, foolishest, footlights, ghostliest.

-4 letters: footslogs, ghostiest, glottises, goosefish, oologists, otologies, shooflies, slightest, toothless.

-5 letters: egotists, floosies, footiest, footless, footsies, footslog, giftless, goloshes, goofiest, goosiest, gothites, hoofless, hootiest, hostiles, hotfoots, leftists, lightest, loftiest, ologists, oologies, oologist, ostioles, otoliths, sleights, soothest, sootiest, stoolies, theologs, thistles, tootsies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TO LOSE SIGHT OF


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      4C 4F 53 45      53 49 47 48 54      4F 46

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

            

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01001100 01001111 01010011 01000101 00100000 01010011 01001001 01000111 01001000 01010100 00100000 01001111 01000110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#76 &#79 &#83 &#69 &#32 &#83 &#73 &#71 &#72 &#84 &#32 &#79 &#70

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      004C 004F 0053 0045      0053 0049 0047 0048 0054      004F 0046

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54492464953392534341425424940

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Quotations: Familiar
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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